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Closing dissertation fieldwork: Ecuador 2014
(2014-10-07)
The Applied Biodiversity Sciences Perspectives Series is a student-directed collection of contributions from graduate student and faculty members of the integrative, NSF-IGERT Applied Biodiversity Sciences (ABS) program ...
Putting the Applied in Applied Biodiversity Science
(2015-10-08)
A great strength of the ABS program is the impetus and opportunities for students to not only do rigorous research, but to do research that is applied. As a first-year PhD student in the Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences ...
Human-Elephant Conflict and Coexistence in Botswana
(2015-10-08)
In an area of Botswana known as the eastern Okavango Panhandle, roughly 15,000 elephants compete with 15,000 people for access to water, food, and land. The elephants are not confined to any park, reserve, or nation. They ...
A Tale of Two Rivers
(2018-12-13)
A Steppe Towards a Secure Future
(2018-12-29)
Oil, gas, wildlife, and communities: Capacity building to mitigate conflict in Uganda
(Applied Biodiversity Science Program, 2016-10-04)
Several companies have drilled exploratory wells to assess the production potential, including wells inside Uganda's national parks. In addition, the region is home to a number of traditional peoples and several Community ...
A century of conservation genetics: Comparative study on the African lion
(Applied Biodiversity Science Program, 2016-10-04)
My study, being conducted at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences under the supervision of Dr. James Derr, is taking an innovative approach to African lion conservation. Rather than comparing ...
Thieves in the night: Elephant crop-raiding in Botswana
(Applied Biodiversity Science Program, 2016-10-04)
For my dissertation research, I am focusing on spatial and temporal patterns of elephant movement and human-elephant conflict. I am taking advantage of technology such as GPS collars, GIS modeling, and applications of ...
Disparity between national and local development achievements in rural Botswana
(Applied Biodiversity Science Program, 2016-10-04)
Community Focused Integration and Protected Areas Management in the Huascarán Biosphere Reserve, Peru
(2015-10-08)
Integrating communities into conservation management has become a priority for national and international organizations concerned with natural resource management. Traditional conservation policies aimed to exclude local ...